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An inside look at what to expect at VMworld 2013

VMware's CMO talks to InfoWorld about the 10th anniversary of the world's largest virtualization trade show

Radical ideas for new Macs from before Steve Jobs returned to Apple

In the late '90s, when Apple lost its design sense, Macworld magazine and Frogdesign tried to help Apple think different

No winners in Google-Microsoft spat, but one clear loser: Users everywhere

Not content to fight over, er, everything, tech giants battle over YouTube and HTML -- at the expense of the user experience

NSA Privacy Rule violations vastly greater than believed — Clash tanks DELL 72% — GOOGLE Heisman to Windows Phone YouTube app — SAMSUNG’s Droid-powered Galaxy Gear watch — GATES patents text-to-image mapping — Crossing SARAH LACY

Google to encrypt Cloud Storage data by default

Users can choose if they want to hold the encryption keys themselves

Dell profit slides 72 percent as privatization battle drags on

Dell has been cutting prices to win business, which hurt its profit

Serious action is needed to undo NSA’s damage to U.S. cloud providers

As U.S. cloud providers face customer backlash, the feds treat the electronic spying controversy as merely a PR problem

Wishful thinking won’t reverse Microsoft’s misfortune

Microsoft advocates ignore new power of users in believing Surface tablet will improve with better marketing or in phantom update

Microsoft’s ‘terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad’ week

This week's damage: Surface RT lawsuits, botched security patches, SkyDrive and Outlook.com outages, and a subpar Windows 8.1 leak

Do devs and IT pros get Windows 8.1 early? Not even Microsoft knows

Conflicting statements by company reps cause confusion, and Microsoft won't clarify